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So, it gives me great pleasure to announce that we have another photographer making her debut in the Photographer Interview Series.

May I introduce to you all Canadian artist and award-winning photographer Margaret Lindsay Holton, as we discuss her forays into and mastery of the incredible, unique world of ‘Pinhole Photography’.

I’m sure after reading this you will all be running out to try it yourselves! 🙂

 

Hi there Margaret, thank you for chatting to us today about the traits of your photography, along with what motivates and influences you as a photographer.

Firstly, please tell us about your photography speciality, which is Pinhole Photography. What type of photography is this and what are its origins?

Artist, Margaret Lindsay Holton, with samples of her hand-made pinhole cameras, and some of her pinhole prints.

Pinhole photography is the oldest known form of photography on the planet. The earliest known use of this technique was in Asia around 500 B.C, and in the West, around 500 A.D.

During the Renaissance it enjoyed a brief resurgence as scientists and philosophers explored the emerging realm of optics. Sir David Brewster, a Scottish scientist, first coined the phrase ‘pin-hole’ in the 1850’s.

Also known as a ‘camera obscura’, pinhole photography – without the use of lens or fancy mechanical gadgetry – lets in a small pinhole of light to a completely blacked-out cavity. This incoming pinhole of light creates a upside-down reverse image of what the pinhole is facing.

In other words, it creates a ‘negative’.

I use photo-sensitive paper to create my images. From the paper ‘negative’, I pull a ‘positive’ print in my darkroom using conventional developing techniques. The ‘positive’ photo image, also known as a ‘contact print’, is what you see as the finished photograph.

Labour intensive, creating one pinhole image can easily take 8 to 10 hours, from initial ‘loading’ of the photo-sensitive paper in the darkroom, to the end result of the final photo image. Yet, oddly, time dissolves when pinholing. The process forces one to be very attentive to the ‘here and now’. All becomes vivid, more immediate. One is literally dancing with Light…

I am ever beguiled by this seemingly archaic form of ‘slow photography’. It amazes me still, even after nearly two decades of pinholing, that I can create photo images without a lens, or a mechanical box with shutters or digital fittings.

Have you always been interested in Pinhole Photography or do you have other genre types of pictures that you have focused on over the course of your career?

I began taking photographs many years ago, like many, with a simple Box Brownie.

As I grew older, I moved into more conventional photography, with upgrades of equipment, first using 35mm film then switching to digital, for the last twenty years.

Now, as an award-winning, multi-disciplined and senior Canadian artist, I see and use the discipline of photography as an alternative tool to perceive, interpret and document the world that I inhabit.

I have always pinholed somewhat organically. I never, as example, use a light meter. Rather, to understand exposure, I instinctively gauge the brilliance of the Sun bouncing off objects, constantly learning by trial and error.

All in all, I am not particularly ‘connected’ to current digital methods of photography. Cameras are tools that can be used in a variety of different ways to amplify WHAT we see and HOW we see it. The skill of photography – to convey meaning – comes with the understanding of the effects of light while adroitly framing a composition. Mechanical cameras and digital software twiddle with these photo basics.

To that end, aside from pinhole photography, I create digital photo-montages where I layer images on top of each other to create hybrid visual stories.

Sample of Photo Montage, Tea Room by M.L.Holton

I also create what I call digital ‘white outs’. In this method, I take a digital image and then, via now an outdated computer software program, manually erase segments, by moving the computer mouse. The effect creates an interesting fusion of perceived as well as created contours that, I believe, both please and engage the mind’s eye.

‘White Out’ Photography by M.L.Holton

Lately, I have also been using digital video to explore additional aspects of visual storytelling.

About five years ago, I started by making short documentary profiles for local news outlets using my Apple iPod and a simple Apple editing application, iMovie. These video shorts allowed me to hone my shooting and editing style.

Then, in 2016, I wrote and directed my first narrative film, ‘The Frozen Goose’. This period film, about a rural family coping in the aftermath of WW1, with a cast of five, has exhibited at festivals over the past year, aired on local cable stations, received good media coverage and is now globally available online.

Watch the trailer and rent/buy “The Frozen Goose” here

As a result, it is much more likely that people will be aware of my ‘art making’ capabilities via film, than by my pinhole photography or even my signature painted works. That’s just the nature of the beast.

The serious fun part of filming is, in fact, the editing, not the shooting. Why? Because editing moving pictures establishes a basic cognitive resonance between the filmmaker and the viewer in a way that still photography seldom can. With film, the editor intimately ‘tells the story’ from start to finish, leading the viewers’ eye, ear and minds.

With still photography, the reality of viewer distraction is far greater. And the viewer, through their own perceptual bias, ends up mentally quick-editing the stationary image, in order to find their own meaning. Nothing wrong with that, but it’s a more capricious engagement process then creating video stories.

It is much much tougher to make an arresting still photograph, let alone, a good pinhole image…

Granny’s Lounger, Award-winning Pinhole Image by M.L.Holton

Other than that, I continue to paint two dimensional works, as I have done for over 40+ years. You can sample that kind of work via my art blog.

canadadaPHOTOGRAPHY – Web Site of Canadian Painter, Poet, Photographer, Filmmaker & Author – aka Artist, Margaret Lindsay Holton

What kind of gear/equipment do you use to take your photographs?

I make my own cameras using ‘found’ cardboard boxes, mostly, and, periodically, I use metal containers, like Christmas cookie tins or coffee cans. My favourite pinhole camera is an old Kodiak boot box because it has a double top flap that works extremely well, en plein air, to create a secure ‘black cavity’.

On average, because they do wear out from use, I make 3 to 4 new cardboard-box pinhole cameras per year. The pinhole puncture itself determines the ‘clarity’ or ‘focus’ of the image. The rougher and bigger the pinhole, the more diluted or softer the image. The sharper edged and smaller the hole, the clearer the focus.

Pinhole Cameras made by M.L.Holton

Have you faced any unusual or specific challenges in taking Pinhole Photography pictures that you have had to come up with creative solutions for?

Generally, I prefer to shoot in the winter because the light contrast, with deep shadows, is so acute in this northern Canadian climate.

The inherent problem of shooting in sub-zero weather is the necessity of wearing appropriate outdoor clothing to keep warm. Heavy clothing can make the preparations and shooting of an outdoor image cumbersome. I solved this problem by cutting off the tips of my right hand glove, so that my fingers can efficiently operate the slider over the pinhole on the box. I keep a spare wool mitten in my pocket, in case the cold is just too much!

Whose photographic work has influenced you the most in your life?

Henri Cartier-Bresson. But I don’t know that he has particularly influenced my work. I do very much admire his compositions and acute eye, his way of seeing.

We all see so many images now. What seems to hold attention these days is the jarring or often visually upsetting image. But I don’t know that this is really useful or helpful to anyone, in that, we have become somewhat anesthetized and polluted by the vast array of digital photography flicking on multiple screens. They are constantly demanding our attention: “Look at ME!”

Think of the constant barrage of ‘attention grabbing’ headline photos of extreme whatever. Our minds are constantly being assaulted by this advertiser-induced stuff to – to just WATCH.

My intent, by changing the means of photographic creation – be it through pinhole, photo-montage or white-outs – is to ‘Free the Eye’. I hope to visually persuade viewers to make new synaptic connections that seduce through gentle curiosity and interest, instead of through heightened uncertainty or horrific pain. Violence doesn’t have to be a mainstay of how we SEE things.

Another peer that has influenced me who I admire and respect is Alan Griffiths, he has a wonderful website full of useful resources called Luminous-Lint. Luminous-Lint is used worldwide by curators, educators, photohistorians, collectors and photographers to better understand the many histories of photography.

Luminous-Lint – Photography: History, Evolution and Analysis

Among all of your photographic works, which one is your personal favourite and why is it your favourite?

Oh dear. Impossible to choose. I like many for very different reasons. Light effects, composition, familiarity of subject matter or even the ‘odd ball’ shot. One of my favourite pinhole images, as example, was entirely a mistake. The mounted photo-sensitive paper fell off inside the camera during exposure. The result was a ‘double image’ of the window frame. Interestingly, this image sold to an enthusiastic collector from Portland, Oregon, about a decade ago.

Pinhole of Studio Window by M.L.Holton

When and how were you originally inspired to become a photographer? Also do you have any formal training that you draw upon?

I became enamoured with pinhole photography after taking a one-day workshop with Di Bos, a pinholer of some acclaim here, in Canada, in 2001. I was amazed that a photo image could emerge without using a conventional camera.

Aside from that initial pinhole baptism, I have learned 100% by doing.

How do you personally educate yourself to take better pictures? What sort of research do you partake to improve your skills?

The internet, unlike mainstream tell-a-vision, has provided an astonishing array of options to improve HOW we see. I use various web portals to explore HOW others SEE, like Pinterest or Instagram.

If a photograph resonates, I always STOP, and look again to understand WHY. It could be a simple thing like the flow of highlights within a photo, or, alternatively, the absence of light.

Do you use any specific editing software packages or written guides to assist you with the production of your pictures?

No. Pinholing is done manually.

If I am messing with digital photography, I primarily use Google’s Picasa, Version 3.

How do you spend your free time when you are not taking pictures?

When we open our eyes in the morning, we immediately start taking mental pictures. This activity guides our hand to turn on the light and find our slippers. The portals of our eyes feed our minds to constantly assess the risks, challenges, pleasures and rewards of daily living. Equally, when we go to bed at night, we zoom off into visual worlds of our memory and our sub-conscious. It’s how our minds work. — What do I DO when not making pictures? I think – and Live.

Tell us more about your upcoming projects. Are you working on anything specific or have plans in the pipeline?

My next pinhole exhibit will be in July of 2018 at the charming Carnegie Gallery in Dundas, Ontario, Canada.

Carnegie Gallery in Dundas, Ontario, Canada

The show is intended as a compliment to my fall show that I had at Oakville’s Sovereign House Museum in 2017, entitled ‘SUN SHADOWS’.

Some of my older hand-made pinhole cameras will be on display there too. Drop in!

What are the things that you wish that you knew back when you first started taking photos? Do you have any parting words for other aspiring photographers to take to heart?

As I am a painter first, I have always approached photography as another artist’s tool.

The primary image-making device, that we all possess, is our own eye. This is an extraordinarily powerful device when fused with the aspirations, neuro-stumbling and imaginations of our minds.

Best advice I can give, Learn to SEE. A good primer about SEEING – clearly – can be found in John Berger’s ‘Ways of Seeing’. Best to read the book instead of watching the online documentary. Think about what you’re reading. Penetrate and understand the inherent stories of the beautiful, good, bad, evil and the ugly that SEEING clearly can convey. THEN pick up a camera to document what and how you see what you do see.

The skill is 100% in the SEEING – not in the camera itself.

And that’s a wrap! Thank you for your time Margaret, you have opened our eyes to a wonderful set of images and techniques, it has been a sincere pleasure to have you here and I’m sure more people will be interested in your craft after reading this interview 🙂

Bio:-

Margaret Lindsay Holton is an award-winning, multi-disciplined, Senior Canadian Artist,
who maintains her artist’s studio on the Hamilton beach strip of Lake Ontario.

You can find out more/contact Margaret via the following Social Media channels:-

Canadian Poetry Online:- Poems by Margaret Lindsay Holton
Facebook:- Margaret Lindsay Holton (FB)
Twitter:- @canadada (Twitter)
Website:- canadadaPHOTOGRAPHY – Web Site of Canadian Painter, Poet, Photographer, Filmmaker & Author – aka Artist, Margaret Lindsay Holton
Wikipedia:- Margaret Lindsay Holton (Wikipedia)

You can buy Margaret’s Artbooks, CD’s and DVD’s here:-

ACORN PRESS CANADA – Artbooks, DVD’s & CD’s

You can buy her Spoken Word/Musical CD directly from Bandcamp here:-

CANADADA TAKE TWO by M.L.Holton – Canadian Poet

If you too would like to be interviewed on my blog at TooFullToWrite and you are a photographer that has released/published at least one book/collection of photographs then fill out the Contact Me form here with your details and we can arrange a future interview slot.

Still want more? Well, there was so much sumptuous information in this interview, that I found it a real treat to hear what Margaret had to say about her many varied and fantastic creative endeavours. For more articles on the theme of ‘Treat’ then check out the links by my fellow bloggers below:-

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2. Bonkers Away! – Daily Prompts
3. Advice to My Younger Self – Positively Un-broken
4. copypower – Treat – A Reflection Of Self
5. Daily Prompt-Treat – WoollyMuses
6. Love Me – Girl Writing
7. Capt Jills Journeys – Thursday Treat- Turtles!
8. simply.cindy – Pancake Day: February 13, 2018
9. It’s All in Finding the Right Words – Treats: Evil Incarnate or Heaven’s Motivator?
10. Jason C. Stanley – A Treat
11. DP- Treat – Sprawly
12. Treat – wordsareallihavesite
13. The Heartbreaker – The Pescetarian Poet
14. A Spa Treat – Bridget Scrannage, Writer
15. logicaldreams – Short Story: Stranger Danger
16. Ashtamisprime – Daily prompt – Treat
17. Conversations – Candace A. Jones Ministries
18. Scott Andrew Bailey – Treat
19. Bajezen – Treat : A Soul’s Delight
20. Treat yourself – Run and Travel
21. Fur Baby; Such a Treat – JessbHappy
22. Carnaby Street – Farm Girl Cafe
23. Who Needs Cafe Du Monde When you…. – LiveFree & L💫veOnPurp💫se
24. A Tidbit of a Mint Treat – corazon181
25. Nan’s Farm-Inside Out – Owl and Mouse 9 – The lost nuts
26. MY ENDURING BONES
27. Jan 3: Treat – Nell Anseo
28. Sweet Treats! – FionaJeeves
29. Actions – Debbie Gravett
30. Treat – Where Horses Lay
31. A Treat I’m Truly Appreciating. – Curious Steph
32. Treat – The Inkwell
33. Tanka: New Year’s Treat – whippetwisdom.com
34. Activity Therapy – Strange Days
35. Speak Now Storyteller – Hello Heartache
36. Parents need to parent… – Mum’s the Word Blog
37. Now Back in My Day – This Pilgrim’s Progress
38. The moves of an empty nest – Quaint Revival
39. Melinda J. Irvine – Scallops
40. 2018 Is This The Year to Quit Social Media? – Eric L. Barnes
41. Eaten – Zeckrombryan
42. Treat – Revolving Around Life
43. Half Full Empty Glass – LiveFree & LoveOnPurpose
44. Pupper’s Treat – TiaSpeaks
45. iBelieve – A Story with a Twist
46. The Holly Tree Tales – What A Treat
47. CHANGE MINDSET: BE THE BUTTERFLY – That Indian Girl in Sweden
48. Better – Leigha Robbins
49. Love Coach Laura Harju – This works!
50. My favourite month – TiaSpeaks
51. A Heartfelt Rant – My Journey Across China
52. Alice muses – Ball of fluff
53. sonja benskin mesher – .gerrards.
54. Frost At Midnite – Lunch!
55. Beto’s Quetes – little tableau
56. Treat of Life – The Soulful Writings
57. New beginnings? No. New Efforts? Yes. – Hatter’s Madness
58. The Importance of Feeling Good – Jen’s Life
59. Treated to a Treat – Live an Untethered Life
60. treat (2) – Seventeen Syllable Poetry
61. Work Wednesday: Back after Break – Hannah’s Happenings!
62. Sue Vincent’s Daily Echo – Notes from a small dog – A difference of opinion…
63. Candlelight – From Cover to Cover
64. One treat after another – deep breath, close your eyes
65. another quiet muse – Conversations with a Beast, part 3
66. Treat – Netdancer’s Musings – Daily Prompts
67. Walk with God – A Treat to be Free
68. SAND DOLLAR SEASON – Treat Tenderly
69. Lesson from the Past Year – Where Lies the Heart
70. The Elm, Majestic and Stately – stbarbebaker
71. To beard or not to beard? That is, I suppose, a question if you’re really, really bored. – IdeasBecomeWords
72. You deserve some Tender Loving Care (TLC)! – Pearls Global Impact
73. Writer’s block – Means to an End
74. lifelessons – a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown – Rich Harvest
75. Midlife Moments – A Beautiful Snowy Evening
76. Scraps of Paper – Long Day
77. Into the Arms of An Older Man – Whose Wine Is It Anyway?
78. Life On The Skinny Branches – Slim Pickin’s
79. Treat – mindescapes.net
80. Once a Day Photos – Treat Cart
81. yi-ching lin photography – holly
82. y – between vacuuming
83. It’s a treat for growth. – Thoughts Blogger
84. Samantha and Marli – Musings from Melbourne
85. COW PASTURE CHRONICLES – The Rookie’s Treat
86. Songs of the Lonely – authoranonblog
87. Fluffy Pool – Indoor Cat
88. Success Inspirers World – Don’t treat me badly
89. Success Inspirers World – How to treat your enemy
90. A Lovely Walk – Random Daily Thoughts
91. Giggles & Tales – The Daily Prompt – Treat!
92. True Friends – Embracing Life
93. What a treat: A super blue blood moon – Word Play … Work in Progress
94. B_ live – Treat me Nice
95. It’s a promise – mademoiselle Adielle
96. { What’s Trending Here at Home} – My Word Soup
97. Adventuresnluv – Recipe for Joy
98. My Crazy Bucket List – THE FIERY WORDSMITH
99. O Traveller! – Wings Of Poetry
100. Time to treat myself – Reading by the Fire
101. Curious Hart – The Time Project: Journey
102. The Home Of DJ Sung Mo Koo – Christmas With Rip Van Winkle VI
103. Relax – 2018. It’s off to a … start.
104. Treat – thehouseofbailey
105. job possibilities – Karyn’s Domain
106. Lips – I am a paradox.
107. Inside a writer’s mind – Z for short.
108. Seafood – enrayn
109. treat yourself to intentional choices – tarryn leigh travels
110. “Treated reservations.” – Expedition Overlanding Nomadic Adventures
111. Travel Treats… – Nomadchasingwaterfalls
112. To Treat or Retreat, That is the Question. – The Mysterious Mr. Ebenezer Pope
113. DoctorInHighHeels – Trick or Treat?
114. The Treat – chicken scratch
115. Avocado – Whisper
116. Heaven’s Sunshine – Waiting for a Treat
117. Dubious Treat – The Ceaseless Reader Writes
118. One Reason To Stay – Snapshots: Styles And Smiles
119. ARHtistic License – Candymaker as Physician
120. Treat your mind – In my world
121. Flowers – aroused
122. Swell Time – Growing collection
123. Treat…. – richa pandey
124. Flavors Of Friendship… – Colourfulcanvas
125. clearance does not make me an xxl santa – Love Alchemy
126. Shail’s Nest – The treat
127. TREAT – Nano Stories
128. Nan’s Farm-Inside Out – The sound of being warm and dry
129. Treat – Covert Novelist
130. juantetcts – Daily Post/Treat
131. Russian roulette vs N. Korean politics – Your Nibbled News – 2018 YNN
132. Fiction – Christmas Diary 5 – Random Nairobi Mussings
133. bogpan – Treat for voices
134. Job Loss: When Everything Stops… – Success Strategies
135. Destructive, Decadent Treat – The Medici Files
136. Notes to Women – The Date
137. DRINKS AT THE BAR – lovenlosses
138. Coastal Book Gal – Song In My Head #91: The Byrds’ “You Won’t Have To Cry”
139. Love & Showers – bambubbled
140. Mirror Treats – Earthly Brain
141. Nature’s Treats – Sgeoil
142. Give yourself a treat – Miss Alexandra Mey
143. Blog fit for purpose – The AAAmazing Phoenix
144. A Gift – The Dreaming Lady
145. Treat Yo Self – New World Soul
146. Wednesday Music: Richard Wagner – suziland too or obsolete childhood
147. thoughts and entanglements – Fare Thee Well !
148. treat – Seventeen Syllable Poetry
149. Solar System Stability – A Unique Title For Me
150. Frank Prem – progress
151. Frank Prem – katy’s scrubbing up
152. Frank Prem – Revisiting Frank’s ‘Psychiatry’ series (Psychiatry 4)
153. 2018: Do It Without Reservation… – Success Strategies
154. Six-word Story: Treat – writingiswonderful
155. Treat Yourself to a Healthy Lifestyle – Melanie Bisson
156. Hollow Eve – Mistyroads
157. Treat – Stuff and Nonsense
158. Powered by Robots – She Treats Us Like Her Children
159. Vaidus World – How Fix Broken Person?
160. Just Me And My Music – Dream Journal #3
161. Depression Tips: Reaching Out – Growl for Justice
162. A ROOM WITH A VIEW – lovenlosses
163. Is a treat the same as a reward? – Written 2018
164. A Treat to the soul – Demystifying Destiny
165. [Daily Prompts] Treat – Arun Sathiya
166. Stoneskip Park – The Naked Banquo
167. Wolff Poetry – Poetry Silence Over Glittered Rooftops
168. The Treat Of A Lifetime – Pitch Black Poesy
169. Spring 2018 Organic Food Challenge!
170. Daily Prompt- Treat – Shereena Badu
171. mylocalweb – WordPress treat
172. Mirror, Mirror. (Short Story) – stephentotheplate
173. Facing forward, facing back – The Page Turns
174. Treat – cocoa2
175. Treat – A Sawyer’s Daughter
176. HUMANSFORCATS – Bring on the cats!
177. Sunlit Rain – Blase’
178. Not wat we had planned – Life is great
179. Wallie’s Wentletrap – Because That’s What Snow Is, Right?
180. There is no treat better than… – My Library and other Mischief
181. #100WW A Real Treat – This, That, and The Other
182. Positive feelings – Musings
183. Na’ama Yehuda – Treat With Care
184. A Slice of Life – Lebanon – Curious Cat
185. CONNECTED – Treat
186. 2018 is Here! – Wandering Soul Writer
187. Treat. – Grace’s Life Chronicles
188. tornin2’s Blog – Do Something for you each week
189. Being Home – What if We all Cared?
190. Musings of a Random Mind – Abducted
191. Work – KerDoodle Village
192. My Treat (Treat) – The Secret Letters to Timbo
193. The Cat Chronicles – Feline Treat
194. The Martyr – Treating Our Thoughts – the curious city project
195. Perpetual Deja Vu – Excerpt # 3 – stoneronarollercoaster
196. Treat Yourself to a Self-Care Day for Your Pleasure and Wellness – Bird Flight
197. Charron’s Chatter – Waist Not
198. Treat – the daily post prompt – The Random Blog of Irreverent Thoughts
199. Suddenly Single in Marin – Put me in, coach – Dating coaches tips
200. Narcie The Narcissist… is a bit Embarrassed – An Upturned Soul
201. sarishboo – You’re My Favorite Treat
202. Wide Eyed In Wonder – Sunsets Like This Are Always A Treat
203. Treat yourself – The girl who writes her own story
204. Find a Treat for 2018 – Dr. Regina Banks-Hall
205. Awl and Scribe – Treat
206. A January Treat – Emovere
207. Flowing Like Milk and Honey – Delicacy
208. Chronicles of an Anglo Swiss – No treat today
209. TRICK OR TREAT? – SERENDIPITY
210. I Gave Myself a Gift This Year – Keep Going Kam
211. Please Correlate Clinically #2 A Date With Life – Musings Undwindled
212. A noun or a verb? – iamjaselp
213. Treat – tsreboots
214. Nothing’s Quite as Yummy as Rawhide and Coffee in the Morning – I’m a Writer, Yes, I Am!
215. Scrambled, Not Fried – Worse Fates
216. My New 2018 Resignations… – sudden thoughts & second thoughts
217. How to treat her? – THEGIRLVERSUSWORLD
218. Alone in the Dark – GARY’S WRITING CORNER
219. MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO – Treat
220. Florence on the Elbe – Journeys of Len
221. HUMANSFORCATS – This is almost too easy
222. chaitanya – day three // 2018
223. Treat – itsctaa
224. Not Every Story Is Worth Telling – Sketches By Nitesh
225. Go Monochrome – My Life.. My Thoughts..!
226. The young candy connoisseur on her Misty Rose banana seat bike – Bird Flight
227. Piper’s Adventures – Treat: A Powerful Natural Rising
228. Treat Yourself – Matt Seeley Poetry
229. Wounds need time and extra care to really heal – Bird Flight
230. Circumstantial illumination – Some epiphanies
231. Verses……. Words – emotionsoflife2016
232. This Moment – Savor Moments of Kindness
233. Treat Yourself – damswriter
234. The Consulting Writer – Treat Yo Self
235. A Short Conversation – Music
236. Treat – Image & Word
237. The glory of jaisalmer (India) – Tinte
238. Unicorns – Oh, border!
239. Treat – DD’s World
240. abandoned – Poetry By Jeremy
241. Hopes and Goals – I Am Writing
242. It’s COLD! – Just Writing!
243. Gems and Wings – Think Outside The Toaster
244. What is your treat – daily word prompt – The Grey Traveller
245. How to achieve your Goals? – techshe
246. Cimmerian Sentiment – A Hard Won Smile (Part – 14) Snow Angel
247. Being and not-being – Fighting the dying light
248. Rewards – The Mind of Nox
249. Companion – Megha’s World
250. Don’t. – Emotions That Matter.
251. Paul Cox Writer – Papa Has a Secret Part 2
252. Why we need sleep – Wells Baum
253. thelonerose – Treating myself
254. Newsletter: ‘No worry before its time’ – Wells Baum
255. In terms of experience – Wells Baum
256. Treat Failure Like a Scientist – Wells Baum
257. Science Traveler – Writer’s Retreat
258. Excerpt From My Novel Project – Armed With A Keyboard
259. Pamper thyself – Parent Ergo Sum
260. Hot White Snow – Ghoulish Desserts
261. Dronstad – Metal genes – The scars
262. Magical mystery food – Don’t hold your breath
263. Trick or Treat – My weird, crazy and mundane life Journal
264. Success Inspirers World – True love
265. Treat With a Cake – citySonnet
266. Sean Hogan – My Journey (Part 2)
267. Treated – Pearson Fiction
268. New! – This Girl’s Got Curves
269. Living with Osteogenesis imperfecta- Deborah’s story. – Hope Chilinda
270. Lunchtime Review : Stromboli – Geek Ergo Sum
271. ….on pets and prisoners….. – x-drive learning 18 is a treat
272. Trick or treat! – The Mum Poet
273. Parenting luxuries – Parent Ergo Sum
274. For Some, It’s A Treat For Others It’s Jail Time. – Knewsy Topics
275. The Love Detective : Alexandra Potter again creates a mystery around love
276. She is a woman – My weird, crazy and mundane life Journal
277. Designer Sophisticate – Don’t overdo it, now.
278. Fun – This Girl’s Got Curves
279. The Pradita Chronicles – Happy New Year – A Story
280. Treat Yourself – Writingio – Explore the Best, Forget the Rest 
281. A Treat For Doobie – binneyblog
282. New2Writing – The Message – #Writephoto
283. Your Dream Classroom – 99Wetlands
284. KO Rural Mad As Hell Blog – reveal 1